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JOKER'S WILD The Original Kings of Comedy hold court on stage
Kings: Sean Murphy
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Release Date: Aug 18, 2000; Rated: R; Video Release Date: Feb 27, 2001; Genres: Comedy, Documentary; With: Cedric the Entertainer, Steve Harvey, D.L. Hughley and Bernie Mac; Distributor: Paramount Pictures
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Easily as raw as Eddie Murphy's old routines, but hardly half as delirious, The Original Kings of Comedy -- Spike Lee's crossover hit of a stand up concert film -- is profane but not provocative. Its stars each work the same terrain: gags (gentle and gratingly lame) about race, and coarse bits about sex, parenting, and poverty. Sometimes these are resonant low down blues; sometimes they're just low -- bordering on the crudeness that Lee decried as minstrelsy last year in ''Bamboozled.''
Posted Feb 27, 2001
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